Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
JAMES JOYCEPeople trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Life is too short to read a bad book.
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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Love loves to love love.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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